| Syneron and Obagi Medical to Initiate Collaboration Aimed at Improved Patient Outcomes in Aesthetic Medical Procedures
Syneron Medical Ltd. (NASDAQ: ELOS), an innovator in the development, marketing and sales of elos(TM) combined-energy medical aesthetic devices, today announced the initiation of a multi-center clinical study with Obagi Medical Products, Inc. (NASDAQ: OMPI), a California-based company, and a leader in aesthetic and therapeutic skin health care. As part of the study, doctors who are actively performing Syneron elos procedures will begin evaluating Obagi's newly developed Nu-Derm Condition and Enhance(TM) skin care systems, prior to or following elos treatments to measure improvement in overall patient outcome for the treatment of fine lines, photo damage and hyper-pigmented skin attributable to the combination therapy. "The collaboration with Obagi will increase Syneron's market exposure to plastic surgeons and strengthen Syneron's position as the leader in the aesthetic market," said Doron Gerstel, President of Syneron North America.
The Audacity of Dopes III
In its zeal to reward its base of the ultra rich, the White House's anti-regulatory FDA reversed the 14 year ban on silicon breast implants despite proven health risks to America's women, yet again appeasing corporate special interests and bowing to pressure from lobbyists representing plastic surgeons and implant manufacturers. .
Study: HIV discrimination rampant in Los Angeles County health care
Los Angeles County health care providers show high rates of HIV discrimination, reports the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles. In three studies conducted between 2003 and 2005, third-year law students, posing as patients who were HIV-positive or organizations working with HIV-positive patients, telephoned health care providers and asked if they treated HIV-positive people, then recorded and coded the responses. Overall, 56% of skilled nursing facilities, 47% of obstetricians, and 26% of plastic and cosmetic surgeons in Los Angeles County would not accept HIV-positive patients for services commonly offered to HIV-negative patients. When asked if he accepted HIV-positive patients, one health care worker responded, "We try not to.
Practice joins with CMMC
LEWISTON - Northeast Plastic Surgery, a Lewiston-based surgical practice, has joined a multispecialty group physician practice affiliated with Central Maine Medical Center.
Steven C. Bonawitz, M.D., the plastic surgeon who founded Northeast Plastic Surgery, and his office staff have joined Central Maine Physician Practices.
The practice will continue functioning as Northeast Plastic Surgery and will continue serving patients from offices at 287 Main Street Plaza, Suite 302, in Lewiston.
Bonawitz performs a variety of plastic surgery procedures, ranging from cosmetic surgery procedures like breast augmentation or liposuction to reconstructive trauma surgery and complex wound management.
He has significant experience in post-mastectomy breast reconstruction, surgical treatment of skin cancer and other skin diseases, reconstructive microsurgery, surgery of the hand and extremities, treatment of facial deformities, and other reconstructive surgeries.
Man poisoned for breast implants
A CALIFORNIA woman was convicted today of poisoning her Marine husband with arsenic to cash in his $US250,000 ($323,000) life insurance policy and pay for breast implants and a party lifestyle. Cynthia Sommer, a 33-year-old mother of four, faces life in prison without parole for the 2002 death of her husband Todd, 23, at the Marine Corps Air Station in Miramar, near San Diego. In a largely circumstantial case, prosecutors said Sommer had at first convinced people she was a widow grieving the loss of her husband, whose official cause of death was given as a heart attack. But prosecutors told the jury Sommer made four inquiries about money within five hours of her husband's death. In the next few weeks, she paid $US5400 for breast implants, had sex with three male Marines and a woman, hosted loud parties at her house and participated in a wet T-shirt and thong contest in the Mexican border town of Tijuana, they said.
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